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JoJo Valdez, a friend who knew Woodard for a couple of months, said he was a kind, very talkative person. The two were among the residents of Cooper Court, the former tent encampment near Interfaith Sanctuary in Boise.

Valdez said Woodard was partially blind. He frequently came by her tent to visit, she said.

Valdez said she doesn’t know much about Woodard’s past, nor where where he lived before settling in Cooper Court. She doesn’t know what became of him after the city closed Cooper Court in December.

A passer-by found Woodard around 1:30 p.m. Saturday and called the police.

Jodi Peterson, a local homeless advocate and fundraiser for the Boise homeless shelter Interfaith Sanctuary, said that Woodard has “been in the system for a long time,” receiving services at Interfaith as well as Corpus Christi House.

Peterson is hoping to find contacts for any of Woodard’s family members so the community can organize a memorial for Woodard. She asks anyone with information to leave their contacts on the Cooper Court Volunteers Facebook page.